CalSEED

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development Initiative (CalSEED) is a funding and professional development program for innovators and entrepreneurs working to bring early-stage clean energy concepts to market.

It will provide $24M in early stage funding across an estimated 100 entrepreneurs over the next five years. A key component of CalSEED will be the development of the Equity program supporting underrepresented applicants and communities. CalSEED is a funding initiative of the California Energy Commission.

A consortium developing breakthrough technologies

CalCharge is a groundbreaking public-private partnership working to accelerate the development, commercialization, and adoption of new energy storage technologies for the consumer, transportation, and grid markets.

CalCharge brings together emerging and established companies, academic and research institutions, government agencies, and other key stakeholders to spur advanced manufacturing and increase the growth of the energy storage sector.

CalCharge

New Energy Nexus

New Energy Nexus is a global network of clean energy incubators and accelerators. It facilitates collaboration and innovation between startups, accelerators, industry and investors around the world that are transforming tomorrow’s energy systems.

Our goal is to build a local and global community of entrepreneurs and support systems to incubate and accelerate the next 100,000 clean energy startups worldwide.

First global accelerator by utility companies

Free Electrons is the global energy startup accelerator program that connects the world’s most promising startups with leading utility companies to co-create innovative customer solutions and the future of energy.

The program is an unprecedented opportunity for later stage energy startups to gain access to the utility partners that can help them scale and expand into new markets around the world.

Free Electrons

XIR

XIR provides researchers, thinkers and entrepreneurs, the financial launch pad and mentorship to develop clean energy businesses that are refelective of emerging trends in entrepreneurship, finance and innovation to accelerate the energy transition.

This critical support between $10,000 - $25,000 covers three months of research, analysis, concept prototyping and other pre-investment stage activities.